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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Two men and a woman working in a branch(?) office of the International Harvester Company. One man is talking on a telephone. Portraits of William Deering a... |
| Date: | 01 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Female telephone switchboard operator at work. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 11 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues. |
| Date: | 05 05 1932 |
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| Description: | The U.S. airmail radio operator at Royal Airport in Madison. During the 1920s Madison had two airports: the Madison Airport (aka the North Street Airport) ... |
| Date: | 01 19 1944 |
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| Description: | A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co. |
| Date: | 11 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Dane County Court House "telephone girls" at the new switchboard. Sitting at the switchboard is Madge Albright, and in the rear is Bernadine Plachy and Mar... |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor-elect Philip F. La Follette reading a telegram at the La Follette campaign headquarters. |
| Date: | 09 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Loraine Hotel lobby with local business directory next to registration desk, male customer at registration counter and two clerks in front of Western Union... |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Seven workers (two peeking through from behind the switchboard) and one supervisor rebuilding the telephone toll switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Com... |
| Date: | 05 1896 |
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| Description: | The office of Historical Society Librarian Isaac Bradley in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Bradley, who joined the Society staff in 1... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard. |
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| Description: | Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team. |
| Date: | 10 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Man (probably R.O. Champeau, owner and operator of the Rocket Oil Company, 204 South Paterson Street), writing up an order for a customer who is seated to ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | National telephone strike, showing one operator in the left half of east switchboard room of Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 04 07 1947 |
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| Description: | During the national telephone strike, one operator is present in the east switchboard room at Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 11 26 1918 |
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| Description: | Offices at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Works"). The offices are empty except for a lone switchboard operator. A sign ha... |
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